Stephen Hunter

Name: Stephen Hunter
Age: 41
Category: Over-28s
Main episodes appeared in: 1
Xtra Factor episodes appeared in:
Description: House-husband. Looks after his dogs and chickens. Enjoys "kicking back with a couple of white-wine spritzers". Tina Turner is a big inspiration - "it's never too late to live the dream".

Performance 1
Shown in episode: 1 (segment 2)
Competition event: Glasgow Auditions (1st to appear)
Song(s) performed: The Trammps - Disco Inferno
Comment transcript:
(song starts; Stephen dances but doesn't sing; Simon stops the song)
Stephen: Sorry.
SC: Are you going to sing?
Stephen: Yeah, it's just about to start, I promise.
GH: I was enjoy...d'you know what, I was enjoying that!
Stephen: Two seconds, I'm going to start, I promise.
SC: Okay, okay, I thought you were just going to dance. Can we start...can we start again?
Stephen: No no, I will sing. I will sing, I promise.
SC: Alright, let's start again, okay?
Stephen: Okay, sorry. It's got a long intro...it's not my fault.
SC: Start again.
GH: Stephen, don't let him put you off.
SC: From the top.
(Stephen starts song again but sings this time)
SC: Thank you very much. Geri, what do you think?
GH: Stephen, I really loved it... I thought you were, you were entertaining....
Stephen: Ohhh....thank you so much Geri!
GH: and you had a mixture of vulnerability but y'know, a bit of a diva in there...I think you've got great potential!
Stephen: Thank you, thank you.
GH: Really good!
SC: Cheryl?
CC: What a fantastic way to kick off the next series of X Factor.
Stephen: Oh, thank you Cheryl.
CC: D'you know what it was tonight? Your, your eyes are twinkling.
GH: He was, yeah, yeah!
CC: It's like, it's like you come to life up there...
Stephen: It did.
CC: ...and when you're having fun, we have fun, and I really enjoyed it.
Stephen: Thank you so much!
SC: Oh look, Stephen, I'm gonna be honest with you, when we had the little chat beforehand, the horrific start, the terrible dancing, taking all that to one side, I think you do have a really good voice.
Stephen: Thank you so much.
SC: But, I think the whole little boy lost routine...
Stephen: I know.
SC: ...has got to go kind of go now...
Stephen: Okay.
SC: ...because you're not 16, y'know.
Stephen: No, it's not on. 16 stone, not 16 years old. Probably more.
SC: Er, Louis, yes or no?
LW: Stephen, I think people will like you, and I'm going to say 'yes'.
SC: Geri?
GH: I like you, I'm saying 'yeah'.
Stephen: Thank you Geri.
CC: I'm going to give you a third big sparkly 'yes'.
Stephen: Oh, thanks.
SC: And I'm going to add to that, you've got four 'yeses'.
Stephen: Oh thank you Simon. Thank you so much.
GH: Fab!
SC: I think he's a great personality
GH: Yeah he's fantastically funny.
SC: Brilliant.
LW: Yeah yeah, a great way to start off.